What I wanted to put on here were some "humorous" reasons why I love my job at Lima Senior Progressive Academy aka PA! Overall it can be summed up into 2 reasons:
1. I feel as if I am truly able to make a difference.
2. I never know what is going to happen from day to day!
For this post, I'll focus on the latter. Each morning I head to class with a mind set of what I am going to do that day, but what I don't know is what my students are going to do/say. This makes it so. much. fun! As a teacher I feel like I have two options in response to this: 1. I can embrace it and get a kick out of it or 2. I can get upset and expect them to behave/say/do what happens at "other schools". I choose the first options especially because I love how honest and real they are. No masks here!
So below is a few quick examples of embracing humor instead of reprimanding "misbehavior":
The students were asked to find x. Perhaps from here on out I should put "solve for x"! : )
This obviously had nothing to do with their geometry problem.
Brutal honesty!
I have one more story, but remember that previous post about being cautious about what I write on here because I never know who might read it?? Well that comes into play here are well. Let's just say that with one of my classes if I need to remind them to get on task all I do is remind them that I am a pimp and they are my hoes. It was their idea really! Ask me about that one in person! ; )
Well I am going to sign off for today and perhaps be productive! I look forward to getting back to school with all my crazy students and hopefully they look forward to this crazy teacher again too! I like days off but not ones that I am not able to be out and about! I'm thinking we *may* be delayed tomorrow as well. The windchill is supposed to be -17... Yikes!
